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Lochie Burke

Lochie Burke

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Lochie Burke is a Sydney-based technology entrepreneur and the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of NetNada, an AI-powered carbon accounting and climate reporting platform used by more than 100 organisations across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

He leads customer success, supply chain carbon accounting and the CFO relationship at NetNada, and has co-authored the first mandatory AASB S2 climate reports for ASX-listed and Group 2 clients. He has advised ASX-listed and private company boards, guided clients through the audit process for their climate-related sustainability reports, and delivered third-party certifications including NABERS, Green Key and Climate Active.

Before NetNada he co-founded JAR Aerospace in 2017, a drone company that won a $275,000 Defence Innovation Hub contract and Cisco's Start Challenge, and in 2019 founded The River Rangers, a Kolkata river clean-up charity that removed 10,978 kg of plastic from the Hooghly in its first six months. He remains its Chairman.

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What Lochie does differently

He treats a climate report as a financial document, not a sustainability one.

Most people in carbon accounting come at it from environmental science. Lochie came at it from property economics and sells to the CFO, not the sustainability manager. His working position is that a climate report is financial reporting under a different standard: the risk register has to survive an auditor, the physical and transition risks have to become balance-sheet numbers, and the governance section has to describe what the board actually did.

That shows up in what he chooses to deliver. He co-authored the first mandatory AASB S2 report for an ASX-listed client in 2026 and ran a Group 2 readiness program across 19 facilities and more than 30 contractors, and he hosted the risk-management and metrics-and-targets sessions of two separate AASB S2 webinar series.

He argues the cost of compliance, not just the obligation.

The standard industry pitch is that regulation is coming. His is that the price of complying has to fall or most businesses simply will not. He put the number on it publicly in 2022: typical ESG consultant fees of around $100,000 price out roughly two million Australian SMEs that want to do the right thing.

The consequence he draws from that is unusual for someone selling software — he argues the spreadsheet method is now a liability rather than a cheap alternative, and NetNada sells Climate Active certification at a fixed fee rather than by the hour.

He engages suppliers rather than penalising them.

Scope 3 is 60–90% of most footprints, and the common response is to push the reporting burden down the chain and drop suppliers who cannot meet it. He has consistently argued the opposite: that supplier engagement is a data-collection design problem, not a procurement threat.

The supply chain product is his area. On the Business NSW program that approach produced a 62% supplier response rate in the first cycle, moved 35% of Scope 3 from spend-based estimates to supplier-specific data, and cut admin time by 80%. For Yellowbox, 400 suppliers were engaged in week one.

His track record is not only in climate.

He has built and sold into a hard-compliance market before. JAR Aerospace went from a Central Coast garage to a 25-person manufacturing facility and a Defence Innovation Hub contract, and spun out a STEM education venture that MIT Solve shortlisted. The River Rangers, which he founded and chairs, is a physical clean-up operation, not a reporting exercise.

It is a useful check on the advice: the person telling a transport operator or a hotel group what a workable reporting process looks like has run operations with real equipment, real contracts and real waste.

In his own words

Why mandatory reporting is inevitable

“Doing your ESG reporting and knowing your carbon emissions is going to be just as essential as doing your taxes is right now.”

— Startup Daily ,

Scope 3 and market expectation

“Carbon neutrality is no longer a nice-to-have but a licence to operate. 80% of the ASX50 is already disclosing scope 3 emissions.”

— Skalata Ventures, Founder Stories

The cost of compliance

“Two million Australian SMEs want to do the right thing, but with typical ESG consultant fees hitting $100,000, they're priced out completely.”

— Startup Daily ,

Regulation versus incentive

“The carrot of sustainability has existed for a while, but beware of the stick!”

— Skalata Ventures, Founder Stories

Why he works with business rather than policy

“Business dynamics offers the most powerful solution we have to the climate crisis because corporate traction has the power and influence to shift government policy.”

— NetNada

Audit readiness

“The 'spreadsheet method' is now a liability.”

— NetNada ,

JAR Aerospace, 2018

“We want to be in space in the next five years. That's the goal of the company.”

— ACS Information Age ,

Where this expertise is on the public record

Every item below links to a page published by someone other than this profile, or to a recording you can watch. Nothing here is a claim you have to take on trust.

Profiles and speaker listings

Independently maintained pages that identify him.

Press and third-party coverage

Articles written about him or quoting him, by publications he does not control.

Awards and recognition

Externally reported awards, finalist places and competitive contracts.

Recorded interviews

Long-form video where he is the interviewee, hosted by someone else.

Webinars he hosted

Recorded sessions he ran or co-ran. These are NetNada's own events — the recordings are public and unedited, but they are first-party evidence of subject knowledge, not third-party validation.

Published by NetNada

Earlier ventures on the record

Work outside carbon accounting that predates NetNada.

The company on the public record

Registry, marketplace and client pages that corroborate the organisation he co-runs.

Sources

The public pages this profile was compiled from.

  1. [1] NetNada — About and Our Team — NetNada
  2. [2] Skalata backs climate tech startup NetNada — Startup Daily (31 August 2022)
  3. [3] Founder Stories: NetNada — Skalata Ventures
  4. [4] Lochie Burke founder profile — UNSW Founders
  5. [5] Meet the UTS Startups Awards winners — University of Technology Sydney (31 August 2022)
  6. [6] Australian Young Entrepreneur Awards finalists — Business News Australia (24 November 2023)
  7. [7] Collaboration vital to commercial viability at Alternative Fuel Summit — Prime Mover Magazine (19 November 2025)
  8. [8] ASRS climate reporting and property data digitisation — Acumentis ESG (30 April 2026)
  9. [9] Drone team on the up and up — ACS Information Age (26 February 2018)
  10. [10] NetNada Pty Ltd, ABN 32 649 450 279 — Australian Business Register
  11. [11] Case studies and client outcomes — NetNada · source of the Business NSW, Yellowbox, Ivy Precinct and Tech for Good figures
  12. [12] Speaking appearances confirmed from event briefings and correspondence — NetNada · Climate Action Week Sydney 2026, Sustainability Business Live 2026, VTA Alternative Fuel Summit 2025 and 2026, TEM Greenhouse 2025, Doltone House 2025, ACSISS 2024, IPA 2023 — no public recording or listing found, so these are described in the text above but are not linked

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